Law

The consequences of the Roe v Wade reversal are devastating. The victory of the pro-life lobby means women will die. Judith Orr elaborates why we shouldn’t be complacent even in the UK where abortion rights have majority support. …Read more

Dan McQuillan looks at the dangerous capacity of AI to criminalise women in the wake of Roe vs Wade and calls for ways of coming together that invert algorithmic exclusion via mutual aid and solidarity.…Read more

Emma Bond and Andy Phippen, authors of 'Safeguarding Adults Online: Perspectives on Rights to Participation', grapple with the thorny issue of supporting adults with learning difficulties in their digital lives without compromising their privacy and participation rights.…Read more

Criminal barristers across England and Wales have taken industrial action over a criminal legal aid pay dispute. Daniel Newman and Roxana Dehaghani share insights into the demise of criminal legal aid and why barristers are striking.…Read more

Fran Amery discusses the impact of the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on access to abortion and how the work done by grassroots organisations like AidAccess and Women on Web will have a vital role to play moving forward.…Read more

In this episode, authors Caroline Gorden and Christopher Birkbeck speak with Jess Miles about the social construction of guilt and innocence, people's morbid fascination with violent crime and why a single explanation of a trial verdict is always likely to be insufficient.…Read more

Colin Yeo, author of 'Refugee Law', considers the UK government’s ‘bespoke’ scheme for those fleeing Ukraine in the context of previous responses to refugee crises going back to WW1. …Read more

Michael Molavi, author of 'Collective Access to Justice', argues for a comprehensive class action regime in England and Wales, to allow access to justice for groups of individuals to band together against powerful wrongdoers.…Read more

Zowie Davy welcomes many of the recommendations in the long-awaited report from the consultation by Women and Equalities Committee on the reform of the Gender Recognition Act and argues moving towards a less pathologising life where trans people who can self-declare their gender/sex needn’t be out of reach. …Read more

On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, Gary Craig outlines the extent of modern slavery, even in the ‘developed’ UK, and the steps we can take to eradicate it. …Read more